Joint unsupervised and supervised training for multilingual ASR

    公开(公告)号:US12249317B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-11

    申请号:US17929934

    申请日:2022-09-06

    Applicant: Google LLC

    Abstract: A method includes receiving audio features and generating a latent speech representation based on the audio features. The method also includes generating a target quantized vector token and a target token index for a corresponding latent speech representation. The method also includes generating a contrastive context vector for a corresponding unmasked or masked latent speech representation and deriving a contrastive self-supervised loss based on the corresponding contrastive context vector and the corresponding target quantized vector token. The method also include generating a high-level context vector based on the contrastive context vector and, for each high-level context vector, learning to predict the target token index at the corresponding time step using a cross-entropy loss based on the target token index. The method also includes predicting speech recognition hypotheses for the utterance and training a multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) model using an unsupervised loss and a supervised loss.

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